Buckle.



L. w. WRIGHT.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1, 1911.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cu WASHINGTON, D. c.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. a

LOUIS W. WRIGHT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE W. & E. T.FITCH 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

Application filed August 1, 1911. Serial No. 641,779.

1 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS V. IVRIGHT, acitizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full,'clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in-

Figure 1 a top view of a buckle constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 a bottom view of the same. Fig. 3 a sectional view.

This invention relates to an improvement in slide buckles such as arecommonly used on belts and for other purposes and which consist of acast metal frame and a sheet metal slide. I

The object of this invent-ion is to simplify the construction andprovide for limiting the movement of the slide with respect to theframe, and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter.described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I employ a cast metal frame having sidebars 2, 3, front bar 4:, rear bar 5, upper transverse bar 6 and lowertransverse bar 7. The upper transverse bar is formed with a downwardlyproje'cting lug S the forward edge of which is beveled as shown in Fig.3. In connection with the frame I employ a slide 9 struck up from sheetmetal and formed on opposite sides with wings 10 which providesufiicient width for a slot 11 and also form shoulders 12 and 13 whichengage with'the bar 7 to limit .the inward movement of the slide. Thisslide is formed near its inner end wit-h a longitudinal slot lt and themetal at the inner end of the slot is slightly bowed as at 15. Thisslide is inserted below the front bar 4 over the lower transverse bar 7and under the upper transverse bar 6. The portion 15 guides the slideover the lug 8 and the slide has sufiicient spring to permit the slideto be crowded over the lug which enters the slot so as to interlock theslide with the frame and limit the outward movement ner end with alongitudinal slot into which 7 ing witnesses.

LOUIS WV. IVRIGHT. Witnesses H. A. AsHMAN, L. H. WEED.

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